Spending the summer outdoors means running into a variety of crawling and slithering creatures, whether it's at the lake, on the forest floor or wrapped around your front porch light. While running ...

Few creatures fill people with as much as dread and fear as spiders and snakes. In fact, many people develop an extreme, overwhelming fear of spiders (arachnophobia) or snakes (ophidiophobia), and ...

For a certain woman in Adelaide Hills, Australia, fetching ice from her refrigerator will from now on involve at least some trepidation. That’s because the woman this week discovered a large and ...

Summer in Memphis brings increased risk of encountering potentially dangerous critters. Venomous snakes like copperheads, while not usually fatal, require caution. Saddleback caterpillars, black widow ...

The snake discovery happened around 7:45 p.m. Sept. 17 at a home in Chester, and the man “jumped back” fast enough to avoid being bitten, according to Virginia Wildlife Management and Control.